Summer Vacation Workshops

Experience bookbinding, letterpress printing, and agar printing. Study one or more of these techniques during your summer vacation! Great subjects for independent research

[Saddle-stitch bookbinding experience] Make "My Notebook," a notebook all of your own.

Make a special notebook of your own with a simple folding technique and large sheet of paper!Learn how to create a notebook with saddle-stitch binding, the same binding technique used for the magazines you can find in a bookstore.

elementary school studentsSchedule:Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday, from 23rd July to 31st August.Time :10:30-11:15, 13:30-14:15Time required: 20-30 minituesPlace :Prologue exhibition zoneJoining the class: Please gather at the venue of the prologue exhibition zone just before class time. *Reservations cannot be accepted.

[Letterpress printing experience]Create a colorful postcard

What kind of color appears when you layer red, blue, and yellow together?Print your name in letterpress printing to create an original summer greeting postcard!*Workshop participants will be working with messy inks. Try to wear old work clothes or other clothes you are prepared to get dirty.

elementary school studentsSchedule:Thursday, Friday, from 21st July to 19th August.Time :10:30-11:15, 13:30-14:15Time required: 20-30 minutesPlace :Printing Workshop "Printing House" Joining the class: Please gather at the entrance of the Printing House just before class time. *Reservations cannot be accepted.

Many confections and jellies are made from a cold, slippery, jelly-like substance called agar. All of us have eaten agar many times. In this class you will be printing with the same thing!

Capacity: 25 people (by appointment only)Schedule:25th-26th AugustTime :10:30-11:15, 13:30-14:15Place :Gutenberg Room (Study Room) Making a reservation: Reservations will be accepted at the information desk at the Printing Museum, Tokyo from July 21st. (We cannot accept reservations by phone, fax, or email.) Reservations will not be accepted after the class reaches full capacity.

Schedule:

Jul. 21, 2016 (Thu) - Aug. 31, 2016 (Wed)

Closed:

Mondays

Hours:

10:00 - 18:00 (final admission: 17:30)

Admission:

Adults: 300 yenUniversity students: 200 yenHigh school students: 100 yenChildren up to junior high school age (15 years old): free* Admission charges may change during Temporary Exhibitions.*50 yen discount per person in groups of more than 20 people*Free admittance to senior citizens (65 years and over)*Free admittance to visitors holding handicapped-persons' cards and their attendant*Free admittance on Culture Day, Nov 3